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Of directions, and winds that set sails smooth

A few days back, I wrote about something I built for personal use - a quasi ORM that depends on the database for typing and validations. While it is at a 0.9.x state right now (I’d like to update the API a bit more …

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Of minor changes and long-short runs

A year on from this, a bit of an update on this; bandwidth is a great concern, without a doubt. Most of the changes came from a switch to MySQL from the MongoDB land. One of the questions I’ve had since January was …

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Of pertinent choices, long hauls, and short falls

Today’s dose of life saving refreshes for me comes as always from the SQL land. At crisp, the authentication flows were based on user tokens delivered through authorisation headers. The token itself used to be computed …

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Build your Resume; learn (La)Tex.

Something I picked up during grad school, fell in love with since is TeX. So much so, I used it for drafting philosophy rants/rebuttals. Naturally, it was the choice whenever I generated resumes. Imo, for a non-Mac …

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Of shackles that save and a heart seemingly not brave

He did everything a cancer patient would have done to prevent a recurrence: He faithfully checked for the earliest signs of the disease returning, and minimized his risk factors. ... Not all cancers can be cured. Nor can …

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Optimise, not to outside factors

Everyone optimises for one factor, or another in the scheme of things. What you optimise with a feverish pace, might not be another’s last priority to say the least. What one of them optimises might not feature in your …

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Of first, quarters to millenia, and more

And thus, PR #1 goes in (well, #250 because aap chronology samjhiye). Silly stuff aside, made the first set of changes to the Pubninja code base today, as an independent module. The good thing about the chronology now is …

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Of frescoes, free birds, and threads that stay

Seven years on since this; eleven since Heath and a longer seventeen since Nalla. The soul, Aurelius said, is stained in the colour of its thoughts. Fleeting, I wonder if mine would thus ever form a fresco panel; …

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Of hidden gems and unforeseen shovels

The best part of a day with visiting sinusitis has been discovering stuff. Stuff that I’ve been running behind for ages now. Sort of a holy grail if that rings a bell. Sat down late in the afternoon with an APM setup …

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Of hollow, brazen towers that tend to scale high

aNNAvappa~NgAr’s episode about Swami desikan and peria AccAn piLLai is chronologically so inconsistent, one cannot avoid laughing hard. Now, that particular episode could be discounted as a random one or scrapped as …

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